The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-09-12
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

SOME of the peach growers about Nevada City
Cal, get 800 per acre for their fruit, sold on
| the trees, this year.
THE Hon. Hannibal Hamln will De conspic-
| uous and horored figure at the coming consti-
tutiopal centenary at Philadelphia.
THE late Dorothea L. Dix bequeathed to Har-
ward College many valuable flags and parch-
inents given Ter by the United States govern
menG
THE Rev. Charles H. Spurgeon, of London. is
said to be on the point of separating himself from
the Baptist Union: a step which he might have
taken appropriately long ago.
Miss PHELPS has new gate story ready.
1t is entitled 1.-The Gates Between" and relates
the possible experience of hard and selfish
nature in the life after death.
ARCHIBALD FORBES writes that there ia no
foundation for the rumor that he is to become a
war correspondent again. His health, he says,
is n unsatisfactory state, and he will neither
report nor lecture any more
MR. Fl. B. FREEMAN, of Toomsboro, Ga, has
a moccasin snake that ne caught when young,
placed it in bottle. corked it perfectly air
tight, and for two years it has had nothing to
eat or drink, and is yet alive.
j. T. TRowBRIDGE, the author of the
earliest discoveries of Kennebunkport Me-, as a
summer resort, has grown rich from the rise of
property and is one of the principal stockhold'
in the company which now owns all the land
available for cottages.
IN New York the cards of enough celebrities
to fill cigar-o box were sent up to Robert Louis
Stevenson, the novelist. but he too sick to
SEQ any one Like the physically little Alexau-
der Pope. Mr. Stevenson sips the sweets of fame
from the bitter gourd of illness.
THE Elk Empress Charlotte, of Mexico, has of
late shown great fondness for the company of
children Every morning the two children of
her gardener are brought to her. and she spends
hours with them playing hide-andseek. and
1fotc riv,opf hofr and hayr vhay,
they leave.
AT Kansas City. Mo-, one day last week, a
teamster was cruelty abusing his horses, in
spite of the remonstrances of bystanders. when
a young lady exclaimed in her indignation,
You brute. wish you would fall off and break
your neck" He almost Immediately overturned
his loaded wagon upon himself and died from
his INJURIES on Saturday.
A WRITER who recently met George w. Cnilds
in Philadelphia thus describes him; ''His rosy
cheeks are like the bushes OF schoolgirl of
fourteen or fifteen. His eye is as clear and
bright it twenty years ago, his step just
as agile. His dress is always the same. aud yet
he looks as if his clothes had just come from the
tailor's, they are SO spotlesS. He is a wonderful
man"
PRESIDENT ALICE FREEMAN, of Wellesley
College, vino resigned her position to marry
Professor Palmer, of Harvard, finds it not so
easy to change her sphere. Her resignation was
to take effect the selection of successor. But
1t to be- work or great Qlfnculty to fill
the vacant place satisfactorily. Meanwhile the
engaged pair are waiting with what patience
they can.
ANOTHER thakore sahib, Sir Waghee, of
Morvi is in New York, and will travel through
the country. He IS very progressive for an
Indian prince; reads scientific papers, has rail-
road in his province, and is trying to introduce
all the modern Improvements. He is a bigger
man than the other thakore sanib now with us,
for the latter is accounted second-rate chief.
whereas Sir Waghee is reckoned ''frst.rate."
A TEMPERATURE of SOP will produce a: dark
blue color on polished steel. and 1902 pale blue
Oil or grease of any kind will answer for draw
ing the temper of cutlery. The temper for IAN
Gets is obtained 1t 1902 Fair, at 5000,
swords and watch springs at $500, small saws at
5702 and large at 1902 Copper olored
spots are not produced by tempering, but they
may be obtained the polished surface Of steel
by immersing the article IN solution of sui
phate OF copper.
THE GOODNESS with which Mr.. Robert Louis
Stevenson faces his impending death cannot but
attract the admiration even of those who do not
particularly admire his books. BY the recent
death of his father he came into possession Of a
vast fortune. and his home on the coast of SCOT
land is said to be one of the most beautiful both
in location and appointments. He has every
thing, apparently, which makes life worth the
livlng-youth, fame, fortune, a happy DISPOSE
ton and loving wife, bus in the consciousness,
of coming dissolution laughs and jests at death
without SO much as passing Dang. Its all
right. If you've lived right he said not long
since" and il I haven't done that exactly, at
least haven't gene far wrong" Some go now.